Author Archives: Graziella Steele

Here’s another reason to let the professionals handle the sale of your house. An Austin,Texas, homeowner trying to sell his five-bedroom home for $389,500 gave buyers more than expected. In a picture he posted online showing one of the four ...

A Florida firm is taking home staging to a new level. It is providing absentee owners with a real lived-in look using families as “human props” in return for a discounted place to live. The Tampa Bay Times reports staging ...

The city of Kannapolis is evaluating economic development options as it seeks to revitalize the city’s downtown core and create jobs while maintaining the quality of life for its residents. Kannapolis is in the process of completing studies on its ...

Area foreclosures continued to ease in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia market. For the month of June, CoreLogic reported that 1.1 percent of homes with a mortgage were in the foreclosure process, down 1 percentage point from a year ago. Since last June, ...

Charlotte ranks as one of the most affordable rental markets in the country, a new RealtyTrac report found. The average rent for a three-bedroom property in the metro area is $1,096. Based on a median income of $55,668, renters spent ...

Looking for a unique real estate investment? The entire town of Aladdin, Wyo., is for sale for $1.5 million. Aladdin, a former mining town, is about 80 miles northwest of Rapid City, S.D. City limits encompass 30 acres and feature ...

The national rate of homeownership continued its decline during the last quarter. Census data shows that the seasonally adjusted rate of homeownership fell to 64.8 percent in the second quarter of 2014, a drop of 4.6 percentage points since the ...

Fifth Third Center in Uptown is being sold for $215 million by Parmenter Realty Partners to Cousins Properties. The 30-story, 697,817-square-foot building at 201 N.Tryon St. was purchased by Parmenter Realty Fund IV in 2012 for $163 million. Will Yowell, ...

In a blockbuster deal announced Monday, Zillow said it was buying rival Trulia for $3.5 billion. The board of directors for both online real estate listing marketplaces approved the all-stock transaction, which is expected to close in 2015. The deal ...

The Charlotte housing market in May posted its highest monthly increase in home prices in over a year. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Index reported that Charlotte saw a seasonally adjusted bump of 1.4 percent, its largest monthly gain ...